Sociologist for children and social equality.
Postdoctoral researcher, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
https://gaiaghirardi.github.io
Gaia Ghirardi
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The winner of the #ecsr thesis prize 2025: @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social!!! Gaia graduated from the @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social #ecsr2026
reposting for the Monday crowd—
This week in my newsletter I discussed the “Have your best baby” campaign by Nucleus Genomics as an example of what @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social and @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social have called “commodification on steroids”
open.substack.com/pub/kathrynp...
A review of "The Social Genome" by Dalton Conley is now out in the RES (Spanish Journal of Sociology):
recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/re...
Lots of ideas for thinking about classic sociological questions, through a sociogenomic lens
I wrote about Nucleus Genomics' "Have your best baby" ad campaign and Kris Jenner's "best version of myself" facelift, the parallels between embryo selection and cosmetic surgery, and competing definitions of "eugenics"
kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com/p/have-your-...
Social Media Use, Genotype and Adolescent Mental Health: A Social Push Pattern Among Girls Research shows that social media use is associated with poorer adolescent mental health, with stronger adverse consequences for girls. Less is known about whether these associations vary by
#sociology link
New @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper w/ @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social & @torkildl.bsky.social!
Triangulating adoption- and CoT-designs, we find that parental 💔 has minimal impact on children's partnership formation but increases their risk of partnership dissolution.
doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social
"Luck and Predictability in the Life Course"
We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
🚨New in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Genetic principal components (PCs) are commonly used to adjust for population stratification in genetic studies.
In this paper, we quantify how much direct genetic signal is lost when using these “catch-all” adjustments. 🧵
Which must-read book+3 articles would recommend to a first year Sociology PhD student? Which book+3 articles impacted you most, during your own PhD?
I have made these questions to a group of colleagues.
Here the combined list:
www.fabriziobernardi.net/a-sociology-...
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Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬
You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL)
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥
Kathryn Paige Harden
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
Ready to unravel the complex interplay between genes and environment shaping health and society? Join our interdisciplinary team analyzing large-scale genomic data across Europe. Are you eager to contribute to groundbreaking research on health and social inequalities?
Four parallels between cosmetic surgery and polygenic embryo selection, two competing definitions of "eugenics," and one short excerpt from my forthcoming book
I created a kind of academic game and ask some colleagues in social stratification and social demography four short questions: I received answers from 15 colleagues: 6 women and 9 ... Read more
Objective This study investigates the consequences of parental divorce on offspring's likelihood of entering and dissolving marital or cohabiting partnerships, assessing whether intergenerational as...
